Goolsby is interested in the way humans form emotional bonds with our environments; he synthesizes his own memories and observations into landscape paintings that serve as "liminal port[s]" that can transform the viewer just as the landscape has transformed him.​​--REBECCA ELLIOT, CURATOR, Mint Museum | catalog essay | From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian HighlandsWilliam King Museum of Art | 2019